NMLP P-038020 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

Sidereus Nuncius

Galileo Galilei · Tommaso Baglioni, Venice · 1610

The great internal point is the drop-title on B1 recto: Galileo first set the Jovian moons as 'Cosmica Sydera' for Cosimo II, and when the Grand Duke's preference arrived mid-printing the reading was corrected to 'Medicea Sydera' by a small printed cancel slip pasted over the heading

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-038020 for "Sidereus Nuncius" by Galileo Galilei (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-038020, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).